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<span class=large>MICAH</span>
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CHAPTER 3
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Priests who teach for hire, and prophets who divine for money, bring a curse upon the people.
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And</span> I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; <i>Is it</i> not for you to know judgment?
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Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
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Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
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Then shall they <sup>a</sup><a href="micah/3/4a" mark="a" type="C" title="Mosiah 11: 24 (23-25); TG God, Access to.">cry</a> unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
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&#182; Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> concerning the <sup>a</sup><a href="micah/3/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG False Prophets.">prophets</a> that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, <sup>b</sup><a href="micah/3/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Peace.">Peace</a>; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare <sup>c</sup><a href="micah/3/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Ne. 11: 35 (34-36); D&C 121: 38.">war</a> against him.
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Therefore <sup>a</sup><a href="micah/3/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 38: 11 (11-12); D&C 112: 23; Moses 7: 61 (61-62).">night</a> <i>shall be</i> unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not <sup>b</sup><a href="micah/3/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 13: 23.">divine</a>; and the <sup>c</sup><a href="micah/3/6c" mark="c" type="A" title="Amos 8: 9.">sun</a> shall go down over the <sup>d</sup><a href="micah/3/6d" mark="d" type="A" title="Morm. 1: 17 (13-17).">prophets</a>, and the day shall be dark over them.
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Then shall the seers be <sup>a</sup><a href="micah/3/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zech. 13: 4; 2 Ne. 6: 13 (7, 13); D&C 90: 17.">ashamed</a>, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="micah/3/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Superstitions.">diviners</a> confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for <i>there is</i> <sup>c</sup><a href="micah/3/7c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 29: 10.">no</a> answer of God.
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&#182; But truly I am full of <sup>a</sup><a href="micah/3/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Priesthood, Power of.">power</a> by the <sup>b</sup><a href="micah/3/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Spirit of; TG Holy Ghost, Mission of.">spirit</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his <sup>c</sup><a href="micah/3/8c" mark="c" type="A" title="Alma 24: 9 (7-9); Hel. 13: 26.">transgression</a>, and to Israel his sin.
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Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
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They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
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The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the <sup>a</sup><a href="micah/3/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel; TG False Prophets.">prophets</a> thereof divine for <sup>b</sup><a href="micah/3/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Priestcraft.">money</a>: yet will they lean upon the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and say, <i>Is</i> not the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> among us?  none evil can come upon us.
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Therefore shall Zion for your <sup>a</sup><a href="micah/3/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hel. 12: 3.">sake</a> be <sup>b</sup><a href="micah/3/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 26: 18.">plowed</a> <i>as</i> a field, and <sup>c</sup><a href="micah/3/12c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 3: 8.">Jerusalem</a> shall become <sup>d</sup><a href="micah/3/12d" mark="d" type="A" title="Isa. 1: 7.">heaps</a>, and the mountain of <sup>e</sup><a href="micah/3/12e" mark="e" type="D" title="IE the temple.">the</a> house as the high places of the forest.
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